Blood trnasfusion is the second most importnatmechanism of transmission of Chagas'disease in both endemic and non-endemic areas. In Latin America, more than 20,000 cases of transmission of the disease, trough blood transfusion, may be occurring. Gentian Violet is currently the only available trypanicidal...
Three Cabus apella monkeys were infected with 3.5 x 10 sobre 5 cells of Trypanosoma cruzi Y strian in order to evaluate the parasitemia and to study the behavior of the parasites in the mammalian host for a one-year period. The parasitemia was determined by hemoconcentraction. In the there monkeys, circu...
Spontaneous metacyclogenesis in culture of two Paraguayan T. cruzi strains has been studied. T. cruzi JAG and RF, two stains isolated from patients at IICS, maintained through successive cultured in LIT medium and the reference strain, y, were cultured in modified Grace medium (isola et. al. 1986), for t...
The microfilaricidal effect if invermectin was studied on Cebus apella infected with dipetalonema gracile in Paraguay. Nine monkeys were treated with ivermectin at the dosage of 200 ug/kg boby wieght by single subcutaneous injection. The significant reduction in microfilarial count after treatament with ...
A graphic key for the identification of male and female phlebotomines caught in Paraguay was prepared. The objective of this work is to facillitate the identification of these insects by health workers interested in leihmaniasis control...
